about Tool's Fibonacci in Lateralus... mindblowing

h/t Jon Henke

about Justin Timberlake, Pepsi Stuff, and another pre-SuperBowl Ad...

Cross-posted on Leslie's blog here.

UPDATE: Perez Hilton has it up as well!

UPDATE2: HuffPo shows love , yay!

about Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (number27.org) is an artist and storyteller working primarily on the Internet. His work involves the exploration and understanding of humans, on a global scale, through the artifacts they leave behind on the Web. He has made projects about human emotion (wefeelfine.org), human desire (love-lines.org), modern mythology (universe.daylife.com), science (phylotaxis.com), news (tenbyten.org), and language (wordcount.org). The recipient of a 2004 Fabrica (fabrica.it) fellowship and two 2005 Webby Awards, his work has also been recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, ID Magazine, and the State of Vermont. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Join AIGA and Apple for the series, “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed,” and hear how professionals today are redefining their creative process. Featured speakers will share their insights into the changing landscape of design and discuss how design has evolved and creativity has diversified beyond any single discipline.

TIME AND PLACE

Wednesday 20 February 2008 6:30–8:00PM
Apple Store, Soho
103 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
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6:30–8:00PM

Admission
These events are free to all. Seating is available on a first come basis. No advance registration is necessary.

about M.I.A.

GALANG MIA PROMO






Galang Video




jimmy




PAPER PLANES by M.I.A





MIA chanting over Bamboo Banga





BOYZ

about I've never seen a SuperBowl ad like this

Post by: Leslie

Working at a new media company (NMS, holler!) that does online promotion work and encourages its employees to watch and buy and blog and play online all day long... I see a lot of videos. I mean, A LOT. People send me these videos... some good, some funny, some not so good... most get buried in my Firefox tab farm (rows and rows and rows).

BUT THIS ONE WAS AMAZING.

SO AMAZING, that I asked if I could blog about it as far and wide as possible (i.e., here and on my own site... maybe on Facebook later, if I can find that tab). Full disclosure: this video is a NMS client's video.

I HOPE TO SEE MORE COMPANIES THINKING THIS WAY ABOUT ADVERTISING. GO PEPSI.


Making Of:


THE Ad...

about HIFANA

Hifana and W+K Tokyo Labs

about Le Ballon Rouge

I remember this from back in the day, it kind of reminds me of @martins buddy icon

about the Best Street Party Ever

about New Mashable.com Design Leaked

my buddies over at less everything scooped this, thought id share with yall

about "travel more, and stop spending money you dont have to buy crap you don't need, to impress people that don't care."

-kuma corner, chicago

this was written on a bar menu in chicago, and I found it quite inspiring.

about The White Stripes - Jolene

my main man, Brian Devine had a great post on cover songs on his blog.. including this little number from the Jack. LINK

"Originally written by Dolly Parton, Jolene is a great song about a women begging another woman not to steal her guy from her. Somehow Jack pulls it off amazingly - he sings like he’s telling a story and the fact that he isn’t even a chick doesn’t enter your mind because you’re so engrossed with the song. You can find the track on their Under Blackpool Lights DVD."

jack sounds kinda nirvannay on this track

about Chicago + Seed Conference + Moto + Alinea

jason fried*












Leslie and I hooked up with Evan Williams (blogger + twitter founder) and his wife for the 20 course tasting menu at Moto

Moto












Alinea

Saturday night and I had the 12 (+5) course meal at Alinea. We got a tour of the kitchen and met Grant Achatz (owner, founder, chef). The food was amazing. Alinea is in the same vein of Moto, using powders, freeze drying techniques and the rest. We both agreed that Alinea is the clear winner. Check out some photos on flickr, in a group called "all things alinea" and a great wired profile

it was amazing.



















each colored square was a different sauce experience.. incredible..














Alinea from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.



on Sunday we had a wonderful brunch at Orange. then went to a cool comic book store and a bunch of other fun stores including the threadless store!!!






mexican eggs benedict with chorizon and a basil? sauce.. it was so fun to have bright green sauce on the eggs. it was del.icious!



fruishi :)















it was COLD!



sunday night we went to Kuma Corner, which has the best burgers ever.
the frizzly onions as they call them are thin lovely fried onions.. Magical.





the drake was nice, we were on the top floor and had a decent view of the city!

about AARP Workshop Recap

the workshop went really well.. I taught my students lots of great theory and had them complete some fun projects

about Andy Shallal

one of my best clients, andy shallal
@ busboys and poets shirlington

about Yeasayer/MGMT Show in DC... needs your help

I have been watching the blog posts, Facebook group #s and Tweets (from Twitter, I know, I know... it is a goofy word) on this topic all morning, and things seem to be blowing up.

If there ever were an issue that combines some of the JESS3 staple interests, this would be it:

• Indie music/supporting up-and-coming artists
• DC-based things that are "happening" or about to happen ;-)
• Unique and real uses of social media

Here are the links:

• Brightest Young Things explains the situation.
• Facebook steez (join and show your support!)
  
• Patrick Wixted and Leslie Bradshaw (me) at New Media Strategies have both posted about it.
• Another DC friend and blogger, Andre Blackman, is also taking up arms.
• Brian Devine and Leslie are twittering the play-by-plays here and here.

UPDATES are rolling in, standby folks...

• UPDATE: Activists U*N*I*T*E over at "Music As I See It"
• UPDATE: DCist picks up our buzz (links to Patrick Wixted and Andre) via Brian Devine’s email to them.
• UPDATE: The Yellow Stereo music blog lists the effort as an example of how to get a sold out show. Hollerback.
• UPDATE: The hits just keep on rolling... Rogo 2000 joins arms and adds a vid from Letterman and this editorial note: I've been skeptical of MGMT, but their recent performance on Letterman may have convinced me to give them another chance.
• UPDATE: Washington City Paper has gotten hip to the buzz, and I love that they cherry picked it from DCist... means that they are listening!
  

Yeasayer’s management/contact:
http://yeasayer.net/contacts.html
jason@nowwearefree.com

post by: Leslie

about Gabe & Max's Internet Thing... is hilarious

Quite possibly one of the funniest things I have ever seen. H/t to my NMS co-worker and Twitter friend, Brian Devine.

about Victory Speech from Iowa: Barack Obama

Barack Obama addresses his supporters after winning the Iowa caucus.

about Adobe MAX Chicago - Sneak Peeks

Flash “Next”

Flash on C/C++

Flex Applications on Linux

Seam Carving

Photoshop Express

Flash Home for Mobile

PDF Packaging

about Radiohead US Tour info

Today Radiohead confirmed that they are indeed coming to North America in the near future, and provided folks with a handy list of just which cities they'll visit. No dates, no venues, just cities.

Did yours make the cut? Have a look (arranged alphabetically):

• Atlanta
• Boston
• Charlotte
• Chicago
• Cleveland
• Dallas
• Houston
• Indianapolis
• Los Angeles
• Miami
• Montreal
• New York
• Philadelphia
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• Santa Barbara
• Seattle
• St. Louis
• Tampa
• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Washington, DC

The cities listed above will be graced by the men of Radiohead in two waves, the first popping off before that oft-reported European jaunt (which begins June 6), and the second taking place sometime after said jaunt ends (on July 8).

about Ron Paul on Jay Leno 1/07/2008

about Spank Rock performing at NYC Apple Store

taken on September 22, 2007

about I <3 burgers

about Juno Soundtrack

I havent seen Juno yet, but I like the soundtrack. here are some cuts

about Alienware's amazing curved monitor

From Gawker outlets Kotaku and Gizmodo (h/t fellow NMS'r Jon Henke)... and all the krazy kidz at CES.

Kotaku:

'Holy mackerel! Look. At. That. Alienware's showing off this eye-catcher at CES. It's a 2880x900 curved monitor backlit by LEDs and boasts a .02ms response time. It'll be out in the second half of this year. Price will be somewhere between "very expensive" and "really fuckin' expensive."' Watch a Vid Here [Gizmodo]



My money says that JESS3 gets one the day it comes out (if not before).


post by: Leslie

about going to China with AIGA in May 2008

I am so excited about this!

This May in collaboration with Package and Design Magazine of China and AIGA XCD, I will be traveling deep into the heart of China's flourishing design scene. China’s creative spirit is transforming it from the world’s manufacturer to an economy of national brand development and ideation. It is a must-see for any globally savvy designer.

My arrival will be announced on the shelves in China by the magazine in March 2008. Package and Design Magazine will publish a profile and design samples in a feature article.

I will enjoy two weeks of design-focused activities, visiting great design firms and schools. There will be time for tourism too: from the Great Wall of China to the Qin Terra-cotta Warriors. In short, this expedition promises to be not only an exploration of culture and design, but also an expedition to remember.

Scheduled cities: Beijing, Tianjing, Xi'an, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Join us for the AIGA XCD China 2008 Expedition; experience the creative power behind China’s exponential growth.

more details soon, but for now hit me with any recommendations in china.

I am planning to hit tokyo on the way home also.

about Justice are playing at THE 930 CLUB!

French duo, Justice will be touring once again this March in the states in support of last years great album, Cross, but more importantly, they will be hitting 2 venues in the area (3 if you count philly). The jaunt-- billed as the spring MySpace Music Tour-- will pair Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé with quite a few like-minded practitioners of Music You Can't Help But Dance To, including the mighty Diplo, Ed Banger bros DJ Mehdi and Busy P, NYC's Chromeo, and fellow countryfolk Fancy.

Check out their tour dates below:


03-03 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q
03-04 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
03-06 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone
03-09 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
03-10 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
03-11 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
03-12 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03-15 Boston, MA - Paradise
03-16 Montreal, Quebec - Cepsum
03-17 Toronto, Ontario - The Docks
03-19 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall
03-20 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
03-24 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
03-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore
03-26 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
03-27 San Francisco, CA - Concourse Design Center
03-31 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre

BUY TICKETS FOR THE 930 CLUB SHOW

about DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist at the 930 club

AT THE 930 club!!


DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist: \"The Hard Sell\"
THU. JAN. 24 -$35.00








dont sleep on this!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmAaYo-CQNw

about Top Moments from 2007

[in chronological order]

1. Quebec, Canada - skiing at mt.tremblant with leslie, nick, jamie, erik, pat, natasha
   
2. showing my art at Artomatic
3. working at Ogilvy PR
   
4. Amsterdam with nick and leslie
   
5. London for the FOWA conference with nick and leslie
   
6. NYC for Podcamp conference
7. nyc again with leslies aunt and uncle
8. miami for my birthday
9. Treasure Beach, Jamaica with leslie
10. flash actionscript workshop with joshua davis in aspen colorado
11. working at AOL
    
12. meeting guy kawasaki at the aol campus
    
13. greece+london with pat
14. BarcampDC was awesome
15. San Francisco with leslie for the rock the bells concert
16. Jackson Hole, Wyoming
17. NYC for interviews
18. San Francisco for TechCrunch40
19. organizing the facebook developers garage
20. presenting at istrategy labs workshop
21. south beach miami with leslie
22. my art show in havana cuba with aiga
23. creating a business in a weekend at startup weekend dc
24. the offf festival in nyc
25. meeting karl rove at the yahoo citizen 2.0 event
    
26. presenting my work at pecha kucha
27. the Frederick newspaper article about me
28. crazy vacation to amsterdam with Erik, Spencer, Ian and Noogler
29. paris
30. NYC for undercurrent interview
31. LA for myspace interview, I saw suge knight in my hotel lobby
32. Jackson Hole, Wyoming for xmas with leslies family
33. Teaching a workshop at AARP

about Ron Paul

I found some great old photos of ron paul on flickr today

click here for the link

about lol internet

Not as sharp as the video I just posted, but also capturing the essence of the web... German style.

Wait for the chorus... hilarious... (h/t Chris Olson):

internet
LOL internet
dsl and world wide web
internet
LOL internet
web 2.0 and online chat
internet
LOL internet
IRC and ICQ
internet
LOL internet



posted by: Leslie

about Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

I know, I know... this video has been around for at least a month now (Martin was all over it on 12/4/07)... But just had to post it while I was in wrap/rap-up mode.

Perhaps one of the best videos on the web all year long (h/t Bill Beutler, for bringing it up again).

We are living at a truly defining moment...


posted by: Leslie

about 2008!

about Skillz Rap Up 2007 and the rest of the years

Skillz - 07 Rap Up


Skillz - 06 Rap Up


Skillz - 05 Rap Up


Skillz - 04 Rap Up


Skillz - 03 Rap Up


Skillz - 02 Rap Up

about WidgetDevCamp

WidgetDevCamp on 1/25 and 1/26. Jesse Thomas is co-organizing and JESS3 is a sponsor.

What is WidgetDevCamp?

WidgetDevCamp is a DevCamp-style event in Washington DC for anyone interested in Widget and modular app development.

It will be a chance for discussion, learning and some collaborative widget hacking. Come and share information on the latest topics in widget development, and see what kinds of prototypes can be built with a group of smart folks together in one place for a day or two.

Designers, developers, product marketers — anyone interested in the potential of widgets and other distributed applications (including Facebook/OpenSocial) — come on out!

You can RSVP for the event here. And full details can be found at WidgetDevCamp.org.

about Tanya Stephens "These Streets"

about Netflix & LG Partner To Bring Netflix to the TV

H/T to HackingNetflix.com (and a tip from a customer service agent on the phone last night while trouble shooting the JESS3 PC Netflix viewing system... always with the inside scoop ;-)

Netflix & LG ("Life is Good") are teaming up to provide a set-top box that will stream movies to TV sets in the second quarter of 2008. LG has not released technical details about the box, such as ports (HDMI? Component? Both?), hard drive, resolution, or other features.

The only available image at this time is a screenshot of the user interface:

What we know so far:

The set-top box will have the same set of movies that are available through Watch Instantly, currently around 6,000 titles. Movies will be streamed to the box, not stored on the device.

LG does not have an exclusive deal with Netflix, so we can expect to see other companies to include this feature (Microsoft's Xbox? PS3?). No other partners have been announced at this time, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that he wants to see a wide variety of partners using the technology.

The pricing for the box has not been set, but I would expect it to cost less than $200 ($99 might be a good introductory price).

The box will be sold by LG, but the streaming service is expected to be included in the Netflix subscription price (no additional fee).

Netflix is testing unlimited Watch Instantly with a small set of users, so we don't know if the service will be capped or unlimited viewing (my guess is a limited number of movies, since Netflix has to pay the studios for each viewing).

We have very little information at this time about the technical specifications of the box, but I wonder if they will include HDMI and component interfaces (the 2 HDMI ports on my LCD TV are already full).

My bet is that the box will include a wired ethernet port and 802.11g. Very few people have 802.11n at this time, and Watch Instantly works well over "G."

Additional coverage by Reuters, the Associated Press, and The New York Times.

posted by: Leslie

about Words Can't Describe This Picture ...

Shout outs to JESS3 friends and colleagues:

David All

Patrick Ruffini

Robert Bluey*

and Erik Erickson (1 degree of separation via Jon Henke)


* JESS3 designed blog


h/t to TownHall's Matt Lewis...

The upcoming edition of Campaigns & Elections Magazine will feature Republican eCampaign guru's (from left to right), Erick Erickson, David All, Patrick Ruffini, and Robert Bluey.

UPDATE: available on eBook here (see page 36)

UPDATE 2: Leslie's NMS coworker and mutual friend, Bill Beutler shares his support and thoughts on the article here, check it!



posted by: Leslie

about my XO laptop

finally arrives...










http://olpclearningclub.org/
im excited about attending the dc olpc club meetings

about New Years Eve! 2008

by jgarber

leslie and I had arrived late the night before from wyoming..

new years eve we went to martins party at the nclud offices in dc

shout out to doug!

about AARP workshop day 1

today is the first day!

check out what I put together.

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update:

photos from class